Published January 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Minimum mass of galaxies from BEC or scalar field dark matter

  • 1. Department of energy resources development, Jungwon University, 5 dongburi, Goesan-eup, Goesan-gun Chungbuk, 367-805 (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-747 (Korea, Republic of)

Description

Many problems of cold dark matter models such as the cusp problem and the missing satellite problem can be alleviated, if galactic halo dark matter particles are ultra-light scalar particles and in Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), thanks to a characteristic length scale of the particles. We show that this finite length scale of the dark matter can also explain the recently observed common central mass of the Milky Way satellites ( ∼ 107Msun) independent of their luminosity, if the mass of the dark matter particle is about 10−22 eV

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/01/007

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Journal Volume
2010
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 007
ISSN
1475-7516

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
45094174
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; COSMOLOGY; EV RANGE; LUMINOSITY; MASS; MILKY WAY; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; SCALAR FIELDS; SCALARS; SUN; VISIBLE RADIATION
Descriptors DEC
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY RANGE; GALAXIES; MAIN SEQUENCE STARS; MATTER; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS; RADIATIONS; STARS